Sr. Engineering Program Manager, Video & Audio AI Research

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone from emerging artists to global brands everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity.

We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

Come join us to help invent the future of video creation! Generative AI is reducing the gap between idea and produced video.

This will help creators from professional filmmakers to social video creators. Technical barriers will be lifted. Mundane tasks will be eliminated.

People will have all the creative control they desire to tell their story. This is the future we aim to create. As an established leader in video production, combined with next-generation cutting-edge research, Adobe is well-positioned to lead the next wave in this space.

In this role, you will work very closely with the organization in Adobe Research that invents this technology. You will help align with product teams like Premiere Pro, applied ML teams, Design, and more teams across the company.

You will oversee, manage, and closely monitor a portfolio of research projects, shepherding them to successful adoption by Adobe’s products.

To be successful at this role, you need to be able to connect the dots, see the big picture, and make sure that all stakeholders are aligned.

If you are a problem solver, passionate about the next generation of technology in this space, and can figure out how to make things happen, this could be the role for you!

What You Will Do

• Oversee, manage, and maintain engagements between Research, Product, Applied ML, and Design organizations, from strategy to tactical execution.
• Drive the establishment of a joint innovation strategy, objectives, key results, and success metrics, in collaboration with Product and Research leadership.
• Manage a portfolio of research projects and their associated resource allocations, diving deeper into those requiring additional technical project management, so that the desired outcomes are achieved.
• Implement and manage a cadence of Product / Research reviews, including strategic priorities reviews, and tactical execution reviews of progress against objectives.
• Establish and influence adoption of a research project portfolio prioritization framework and implement processes and tools to support it.
• Establish feedback and metrics systems to assess the value of Research technologies to Product end users, and to assess the Product team satisfaction with the Research partnership.
• Leverage in depth technical knowledge to understand issues, identify their root causes, determine alternative solutions, evaluate them, make recommendations and execute on them.

What You Will Need to Succeed

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field is desired.
• Significant prior experience in customer-facing roles, project / program management, product management, and working in a technology or research organization.
• Experience in expertly managing a portfolio of projects (10 or more).
• Exceptional ability to work at both the strategic and tactical levels, and to deliver desired outcomes despite obstacles.
• Experience defining, implementing, and optimally executing high-visibility initiatives in a constantly evolving environment.
• Passion for problem solving and ability to think through problems creatively and systematically, and to identify and evaluate alternative solutions.
• Ability to influence executives, senior leaders, and decision-makers, and to gain alignment without direct authority, leveraging data and storytelling.
• Outstanding interpersonal, verbal, and written communication and presentation skills, resulting in effective and timely information sharing.
• Expert ability to translate highly technical jargon into language that a non-technical audience can understand and work with.
• High degree of curiosity, flexibility, perseverance, teamwork, and self-motivation.
• Expertise in a variety of productivity tools (, Microsoft Excel, SharePoint, Wiki, Jira, etc).

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets.

The pay range for this position is $138,600 $258,700 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans.

Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.